Category Archives: Canadian Press
Green River Killer victim may have spent time in Canada
SEATTLE - Authorities hope a facial reconstruction of a girl who was slain by a Seattle-area serial killer will help identify the victim, who tests show may have spent time in several Canadian provinc...
Dec 06, 2016
Snow storm forces schedule changes at 2016 Viessmann Luge World Cup
WHISTLER, B.C. - Nasty weather has forced the upcoming 2016 Viessmann Luge World Cup event being held in Whistler, B.C., to change its schedule. A heavy snowstorm rolling through the Canadian prairies...
Dec 06, 2016
Venezuela opposition skips planned meeting with government
CARACAS, Venezuela - Venezuela’s opposition walked away from a meeting with the government Tuesday, endangering ongoing talks aimed at diffusing the country’s political crisis. Opposition ...
Dec 06, 2016
Raging Oakland warehouse fire trapped victims in smoke
OAKLAND, Calif. - The fire that killed 36 people during a party at an Oakland warehouse started on the ground floor and quickly raged, with smoke billowing into the second level and trapping victims w...
Dec 06, 2016
Police: 3 kids killed, mother critically injured in shooting
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Critically wounded, an Albuquerque mother struggled in vain to pull her three children to safety after a gunman shot them during a confrontation inside the family’s home in w...
Dec 06, 2016
Mother settles JetBlue lawsuit after son flown to wrong city
NEW YORK - A New York City woman has agreed to settle her lawsuit against JetBlue Airways after it mixed up her 5-year-old son with another boy and flew him to the wrong city. Maribel Martinez’s...
Dec 06, 2016
Apple pays $450,000 for alleged hazardous waste violations
SAN FRANCISCO - Apple is paying $450,000 to settle allegations that the iPhone maker operated and closed two hazardous-waste processing plants without submitting the proper paperwork to California env...
Dec 06, 2016
After 9 years, quick conviction in Times Square hotel murder
NEW YORK - It took nearly a decade after a prostitute’s battered body was found under a Times Square budget hotel bed for the case to go to trial. But it took only about two hours for jurors to ...
Dec 06, 2016
Church attack survivor recalls loud noise, then darkness
CHARLESTON, S.C. - A survivor of last year’s massacre at a black South Carolina church testified Wednesday that her Bible study group had just closed their eyes and started praying when a loud s...
Dec 06, 2016
Snow geese deaths from mine pit number in the thousands
BUTTE, Mont. - Several thousand snow geese died after a snowstorm forced tens of thousands of the migratory birds to take refuge in the acidic, metal-laden waters of an old open pit mine in Montana la...
Dec 06, 2016